Re: [Evolution] too many open files with IMAP

[Phil Groschwitz <ssc1478 aim com>]

On Sat, 24 Mar 2007 12:02:59 -0400
Matthew Barnes <mbarnes redhat com> wrote:

> It sounds like you might be encountering bug #348888 [1], which was
> fixed last fall in 2.9.  Unfortunately it was never backported to 2.8
> because the solution required breaking ABI in evolution-data-server.
>
> If you can't upgrade to Evolution 2.10, you can somewhat work around
> the problem by writing a little shell script that first increases your
> maximum file descriptor limit and then runs evolution:
>
>     su -c "ulimit -n 10000; su $LOGNAME -c 'evolution'"
>
> Hope this helps,
> Matthew Barnes

Thanks!  I'll try this.